Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Board Game Accessibility (Tabletop Game Accessibility)
- The practice of making physical board games, card games, and tabletop games playable by people with disabilities. Most commercial board games rely heavily on visual information — printed text, colors,…
- Bobby (Bobby Worldwide, Watchfire Bobby)
- Bobby was one of the earliest and most widely used automated web accessibility testing tools, developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and later acquired by Watchfire (subsequentl…
- Bodily Autonomy
- The right of individuals to make decisions about their own bodies, including how they use their bodies for work, what medical treatments they receive, and how they manage their physical and mental hea…
- Body Awareness (Body Schema, Body Image)
- The understanding of one's own body including its structure, posture, position in space, and relationship to the environment. Body awareness encompasses both the physical sense of where body parts are…
- Body Doubling (Parallel Working, Co-Working for Focus)
- A productivity and focus strategy commonly used by people with ADHD and other executive function challenges, where having another person present — physically or virtually — helps with task initiation …
- Body Ownership Illusion (BOI)
- A perceptual phenomenon in virtual reality where users perceive a virtual body or avatar as their own, experiencing it as an extension of their physical self. This illusion is fostered when the virtua…
- Body Sheet (Body Map, Body Mapping)
- A body sheet is an outline drawing of the human body (typically front, back, and side views) used as a canvas onto which participants map bodily sensations, emotions, or symptoms. Originating in art t…
- Body-Centric Design
- Design approaches in technology that center on the user's physical body as the primary means of interaction, such as VR systems that rely on body tracking, gestures, and physical movement. While body-…
- Body-Powered Prosthesis (Cable-Operated Prosthesis, Mechanical Prosthesis)
- A body-powered prosthesis is a type of prosthetic device that uses the wearer's own body movements to operate a mechanical function, typically through a cable-pull system. In upper-limb devices like t…
- Bodymind
- A concept from disability studies, introduced by Margaret Price and widely adopted by disability scholars and activists, referring to the inseparable integration of body and mind as a single entity. T…
- Bodymind Barrier (Bodymind Access Barrier)
- A type of access barrier where performing a task leads to an undesirable physical or mental state, such as pain, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, or sensory overload. The task may be technically c…
- Bodystorming (Embodied Brainstorming)
- A participatory design method where participants physically act out scenarios, interactions, or use cases using their bodies rather than paper prototypes or verbal descriptions. In accessibility resea…
- Bone Conduction (Bone Conduction Headphones, Bone Conduction Audio)
- A method of transmitting sound vibrations through the bones of the skull directly to the inner ear, bypassing the outer and middle ear. Bone conduction headphones rest on the cheekbones or temples rat…
- Bone Conduction Headphones (Bone Conducting Headphones, Bonephones)
- Audio devices that transmit sound through the bones of the skull directly to the inner ear, bypassing the outer and middle ear. Unlike traditional headphones, bone conduction headphones leave the ear …
- Bone Conduction Headset (Bone Conduction Headphones, Bone Conduction Audio)
- An audio device that transmits sound vibrations through the bones of the skull directly to the inner ear, bypassing the outer and middle ear and leaving the ear canal open. For people who are blind or…
- Bone conduction (Bone conduction hearing, Bone anchored hearing)
- Bone conduction is a method of sound transmission that delivers audio vibrations through the bones of the skull directly to the inner ear, bypassing the outer and middle ear. Bone conduction technolog…
- Bone conduction headphones (Bone conduction earphones, Bone conduction audio)
- Audio devices that transmit sound through vibrations on the skull bones rather than through the ear canal, leaving the ears open to ambient environmental sounds. For people with visual impairments usi…
- Bone-Conducting Headphones (Bone Conduction Headphones, Bone Conduction Headset)
- Headphones that transmit sound by vibrating the skull bones directly to the inner ear, bypassing the outer and middle ear and leaving the ear canals open. In accessibility contexts they are widely use…
- Bone-Conduction Headset (Bone-conduction headphones, Bone-conduction earphones)
- A headphone that delivers sound by vibrating the bones of the skull and jaw rather than projecting air through the ear canal, leaving the wearer's ears uncovered and able to hear ambient sound. Bone-c…
- Bonferroni Correction (Bonferroni Adjustment)
- The Bonferroni correction is a statistical adjustment that controls the family-wise error rate when multiple hypothesis tests are performed on the same data. It divides the target significance thresho…